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|author=Philip ReeveMax Boucherat|title=Utterly Dark and the Face The Last Life of the DeepLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=In a wordWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, richon her lonesome. There is certainly an abundance of riches What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseablanket fort, British but way westshe has one main intention, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people and that is to log on itto Voxminer, and seathe world-witchesbuilding, and legends of the Dark family critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has to keep watch for magical islands a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and their monster approaching from then she finds something even further west, where no ship dare sailmore spooky. The current Darks are For the Watcher, Andrewe, who has server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to keep notes enter shows signs of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himselfon her phone screen, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into her safe place in the world of protecting their islandgame has been doctored – well, like it or not.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=17884523720008666482

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonRachel Greenlaw|title=Julia Compass and the SharkBlade|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home answering beat in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for my heart.'' Rosevear, a summerremote and partially forgotten island, in survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the far NE wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Scottish islandsseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Here be VikingsBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, that kind of Scottish they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Dad is going Desperate to be automating the lanternsave him from death, which Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is his specialist thingas charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, while mum will be leaving her career she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharksea. And JuliaWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, wellas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, she will Mira must be homesick determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and alone – until the ones she suddenly finds company one nightholds most dear.|isbn=15101077890008664730

|author= Jonathan StroudHarry Allen|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneChildren of the Sun|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns a talented singer. Life is hard and Faith Houses food is difficult to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britaincome by, robbing banks so Seo and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browneher friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, a dark boy with dark powers looking for tree bark and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee edible grasses to supplement the mythical Free Isles meagre rations of the London Lagoonrice and kimchi at home. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=14063948151805140493

|author=Mercedes HelnweinAlexia Casale|title=SlingshotSing if you Can't Dance|rating=35

|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to being lonely. As navigate a secret illegitimate daughter life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a man with a "real" familydance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, she is used and desperate to get back to not being a priority in peoplelife that's livesas normal as she can possibly manage. But when she defends Meanwhile there's a random new (cute!) boy in school, her class with music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her slingshot, body continues to throw at her simple existence is changed for goodto navigate. No longer So even though she can 't dance anymore, might she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for be able to sing her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.way through instead?|isbn=152905818X0571373801

|author= T L HuchuSimon Fox|title= The Library of the DeadDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Ropa Moyo Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a ghostalkersecret place, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from join him on the dead of Edinburgh for their living relativesrun. Ever since she dropped out of school They get together, she's been using it but barely begin to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking smell the ruined streets whiff of EdinburghSouthern trains when the father is arrested, targeting leaving Archie on the city's children. Soonlate express to Brighton, Ropa is pulled into the search for toting a missing boy at the request of tin his father was determined to keep away from his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library colleagues, and realise that the world bearer of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagineda whole heap of questions. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 15290394521839944420

|author=Kristen O'NealLex Croucher|title=Lycanthropy Gwen and Other Chronic IllnessesArt Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary= Having recently Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseasebetrothed since they were tiny, Priya has much to come to terms their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the fact kingdom's only female knight) - something that she may be in constant pain for the rest of Art discovers from her lifeprivate diaries. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'' And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, an online support group where she talks to a bunch creating the subterfuge of other teens living falling in love with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess aroundwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to will they find there is a werewolf way in the basement – and for that werewolf to which they can both truly be the girl she has been talking themselves, or are they destined to online for the past few months.live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=16836923491526651793

|author=Goldy MoldavskyNick Brooks|title=The Last GirlPromise Boys|rating=54|genre=teensTeens|summary= Rachel Chavez is When the new girl at Manchester principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep. A school filled to is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belongpolice station as suspects. She's not rich Each, seemingly, she has no ties to a grudge of some royal family in Serbiadescription against Principal Moore, and most of all, she spends each could have been there at the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comforthis murder. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style But who killed him, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalatewhy, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to if any of the pranksboys are innocent, and people begin will they be able to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.clear their names?|isbn=07555015271035003155

|isbn=14063954041919635017|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage BrainA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Nicola MorganKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=2020 has been Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots series of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleeprobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? - IYou've got loads ll have to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children wait to get an answer to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worsesecond question because I avoid spoilers. And thereBut I's also ll answer the fact that first one: for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinesshis grandmother.. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

|author=Rob WintersPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=His Name Was WrenDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=In September 1944 something came down Ant is in Oban WoodsYear Eleven at quite a standard school, near and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the village of Hurstwickfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It came down hardAs they're all fired up, taking straining at the spire of the village church with it, destroying leash only a stone shacksingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. and leaving a wide trail through the woodWhich is confusing for Ant, but no trace of as he doesn't know what it actually washis score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. German He's had a casual relationship, a secret weapon was one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the local gossipladder headed by 'experienced', but there should have whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been an explosion having the relationship and a crater, and there were neither of those thingsthe sex with.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1529509491

|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi1800901232|title=YolkStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Jayne Baek is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion student that's barely getting bydesigner. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about Life in the men rural village where she sleeps lived with. She's an allher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-round messy character; dressed man and that's her charmwoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. June, Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the other hand, is a complete contrast mini-bus to JayneHanoi. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all Only, Hanh and has the other girls were not going to work in a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesshop, and the two have barely kept they were to work in contact despite living virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, ones with intricate embroidery and Jayne is beading on the only person she can turn to. legs? The two sisters have to come together ones with the artfully-placed rips and decide how far they'll go to save each otherdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|isbn= 0349003696

|author=Becky AlbertalliPatrice Lawrence|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaNeedle|rating=53

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. He has a close group Kicked out of friendsmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a loving familypleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's gayat uni. Only Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one person knows thissuch item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and thatis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's Blue – allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one daywell, these emails fall into the wrong handswhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and everything Simon knows is turned upside downpointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=014135609X1800901011

|author=Anna CareyAnn Sei Lin|title=This is Not the Jess ShowRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is Kurara has spent her entire life as a normal 90's teenage girlservant on the Midori, just trying to navigate a massive dining hall floating in the usual stresses sky where soldiers of school, the Empire come to drink and boysmake merry between their conquests. However, and parent troubles. But strange things seem when a man named Himura arrives to be happening in tell her small townthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with an apple on ithim, to leave the life of dreary servitude that slips out of her friend's bagis all she has known. Well, but that her friends just soon Kurara won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voiceshave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and her sister (who she is very ill) seems forced to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesflee out into the world. Is there something going on beneath She joins Himura aboard the surface Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of Jess' life?adventure awaits her…|isbn=16836919701406399590

|isbnauthor=1712435728Marcus Sedgwick|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherWrath

|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahMeet Fitz, he's a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks over, and he'll come back should be free to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: do what he's been there for a yearwants, on the same ward to go where his brother died he wants and now, with his hair all shorn offwhom he wants, but he's going home cannot stop himself from putting his foot in his dead brother's clothes. He wants it when he talks to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherbest friend, ForbesCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, says that but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that heenigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitiswhen Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Good luck with that one, Alex.|isbn=1800900899

|author=Alice OsemanTori Bovalino|title=SolitaireThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary= Victoria Spring Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the worlddeliver herself. Nothing What makes it worse is interestingthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so sheThe boarding school's not headmaster, and a complete lonerman Tess hates. She hates As a lot petty act of things revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- including herself. But suddenlyit notes on each of the books, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout scribbled with the schoolugliest insults she can think of. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in ToriThey's lifere never meant to reach him, of course. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedHer plan is to get her anger out like this, but suddenly she isand then take them all off before delivering them. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind No harm done… Or it? Why does it all seem to would be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isnif someone hadn't bored anymoredelivered them for her.|isbn=97800075592201789098130

|author=Alice OsemanPhilip Reeve|title=LovelessUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Georgia In a word, rich. There is a teenager who's embarking on her first year certainly an abundance of university and is riches in this story set on a desperate struggle to figure herself outpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. She's always been in love with love. With the idea There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of love, the idea of falling madly Dark family that has to keep watch for someone magical islands and finding blisstheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But The current Darks are the reality for her Watcher, Andrewe, who has always been different. Sheto keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something and fall for someonefoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the opportunity presents itself in any kind world of realprotecting their island, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by like itor not. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412X1788452372

|author=Arvin AhmadiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=How It All Blew UpJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=18 year old Amir is American IranianJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a muslimsummer, and gayin the far NE of the Scottish islands. He struggles with his identityHere be Vikings, unable that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to face telling his parents who he really be automating the lantern, which is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himspecialist thing, threatening while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awayhunt the elusive Greenland shark...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his familyAnd Julia, where they all discover more about himwell, she will be homesick and who he really is, and who he really wants to bealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=14714099291510107789

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedJonathan Stroud|title=The Black KidsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Scarlett McCain is set against an outlaw, rejecting the backdrop draconian conformity of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a reaction dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the absolution mythical Free Isles of four police officers for beating a black the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, Rodney King, nearly the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to death. Told from reach the perspective of Ashley BennettFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters rest of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.Britain?|isbn=14711881911406394815

|author=Suzanne CollinsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow a man with a "real" family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This she is his chance used to prove himself to the world and secure his place not being a priority in the Capitol for goodpeople's lives. But when he is assigned she defends a tribute random boy in her class with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and slingshot, her simple existence is changed for him) are gonegood. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world, No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commencesolitude, Lucy Gray fights for her life now has a boy in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting it that she never asked for his life too: Wade Scholfield. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179152905818X

|author=James PattersonT L Huchu|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the same street corner, every day, dead of Edinburgh for years. She is waiting for her parents to come and get hertheir living relatives. They left her there when Ever since she was just tinydropped out of school, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and heraging grandmother. However, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingss an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, and can fly! Since she was abandoned shetargeting the city's been living with a group of other children. Soon, all with interesting characteristics Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of their own his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and together they've made their own family. But now realise that the city world of magic is seemingly even far bigger and more troubled dangerous than usual, thereshe ever could's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where ve imagined. Will she find the missing children live, and then one day Hawk comes home bring an end to find her family have been taken away. Where have they been takenthis evil, and can Hawk rescue them before or will it's claim her too late?|isbn=15291200041529039452

|author= Samira AhmedKristen O'Neal|title= Mad, Bad Lycanthropy and Dangerous to KnowOther Chronic Illnesses|rating= 3.5

|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''In the end, we all become storiesOof Ouch My Bones'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like , an online support group where she talks to a dream for most peoplebunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax while also providing an escape to just joke and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagoaround. On a chance encounter with a descendant When Brigid—one of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him her closest friends—doesn't respond to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumaschat for a while, Eugene Delacroix Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and Lord Byrondrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. As But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman basement – and why it was one for that should never have werewolf to be the girl she has been forgottentalking to online for the past few months.|isbn=03490035561683692349